Marriage is an institution, there are several ways through which a man and woman can meet to start relationship which may later leads to marriage but in China parents shops for spouses for their children.
Apart from meeting at public or private place, their are many online dating site through which man and woman can link up and start relationship.
In shangai China, there is a place called Blind Date Corner, a weekend Market usually opens on Saturday and Sundays for shopping of spouse for their male or female children.
The Blind corner was established in 2004
Any parent looking for a potential partner for their children would visit the Marriage market to peruse a list of would-be suitors’ CVs hanging on with printout of their information, their vital statistics – their exam results, salary, and others.
According to a report obtained from the Guardian newspaper, China is facing a serious gender imbalance, a byproduct of the now-defunct one-child policy which China implemented from 1979 to 2015.
Due to the strict family-size limitations and a preference for sons, there is an unusual shortfall of the female population, often termed as the “missing women of China”.
According to data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the male population exceeds the female population by more than 30 million. As a consequence of the one-child policy, men of marriageable-age known as guang gun (光棍), translated as “bare branches” or “bare sticks”, live in societies where marriage is considered as part of an individual’s social status
